Hiring Report: Here's How the Class of 2020's Law Graduates Are Doing
We break down the latest American Bar Association data on law school entry level employment to determine which schools fared the best—and worst—in 10 different job categories.
April 26, 2021 at 12:51 PM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.com
Considering that a global pandemic rendered a massive blow to the economy just as they wrapped up their legal studies, the J.D. class of 2020 did surprisingly well on the entry-level job market. The latest figures from the American Bar Association show that the percentage of recent graduates who landed full-time, long-term jobs that require bar passage within 10 months of leaving campus was 70%. That's down from 72% the previous year—which was a historic high—but the decline was not nearly as much as many legal educators feared.
Those aggregate numbers don't provide a full picture of what happened at individual law schools, and where graduates did—and didn't—find work. Law.com has dug through the trove of jobs data released this month by the ABA to break down how each law school performed in 10 different areas. We've ranked schools according to the percentage of 2020 J.D.s in bar passage-required jobs (the University of Chicago Law School edged Columbia Law School out of the top spot in that category this year); the percentage of grads in federal clerkships (again, Chicago unseated Stanford Law School there); and jobs at large law firms (Columbia retained its No. 1 position.)
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Who Got The Work
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Who Got The Work
Attorneys from A&O Shearman has stepped in as defense counsel for Toronto-Dominion Bank and other defendants in a pending securities class action. The suit, filed Dec. 11 in New York Southern District Court by Bleichmar Fonti & Auld, accuses the defendants of concealing the bank's 'pervasive' deficiencies in regards to its compliance with the Bank Secrecy Act and the quality of its anti-money laundering controls. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian, is 1:24-cv-09445, Gonzalez v. The Toronto-Dominion Bank et al.
Who Got The Work
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Who Got The Work
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